Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Blue Yak Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $692k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2026
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $57,236
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 17
- Total assets, FY2026
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 13% of the organizations Blue Yak Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 44 | $682k | 9% |
| FY2025 | 40 | $622k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $574k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $691k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $668k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $592k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $599k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCH Health and Community Services | $416,029 | 7 | 1% |
| Kennett Consolidated School Distric | $413,207 | 7 | n/a |
| Stroud Water Research Center | $310,759 | 7 | 1% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $238,000 | 6 | 0% |
| YMCA of Greater Brandywine | $213,200 | 7 | 0% |
| The Garage Community & Youth Center | $185,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Chelsea's Fund | $162,655 | 4 | 6% |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Butternut Valley Alliance | $135,635 | 7 | 38% |
| The Hamels Foundation Inc | $118,438 | 6 | 38% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($737k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blue Yak Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Applestone Foundation-Ima · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Fjc · The Roemer Foundation · Forney Family Foundation Inc · Ccres
How this is measured
About Blue Yak Foundation
- How much does Blue Yak Foundation give?
- Blue Yak Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $691,883 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Blue Yak Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (18%), Health (16%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Blue Yak Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: LCH Health and Community Services ($416k), Kennett Consolidated School Distric ($413k), Stroud Water Research Center ($311k).
- Does Blue Yak Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blue Yak Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Yak Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, Applestone Foundation-Ima, The Dansko Foundation Inc.
- Where is Blue Yak Foundation based?
- Blue Yak Foundation is based in PA.
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